University in 2006 and Washington University in St. Louis in 2008. In October 2009, he was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Chancellor of the National University of Singapore S. R. Nathan. Lee had a variety of bamboo, the Drepanostachyum falcatum var. sengteeanum, named after him. References 1923 births 2022 deaths Honorary Fellows of the British Academy Singaporean businesspeople Singaporean people of Hokkien descent Singaporean philanthropists